Original artwork, not a still
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Human achievements, the lines suggest, hover in an in-between space, neither grounded nor eternal. Like clouds lit up as if they were the sun's grand tents, they look magnificent yet remain insubstantial, beautiful and fleeting at once, drifting between the mundane and the divine.
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